SparkFun Electronics Commentsurn:uuid:214d0e4e-f1b1-d287-ce26-ac5b4c9f82492015-08-02T12:32:02-06:00SparkFun ElectronicsCustomer #383498 on DEV-10329 - PICASO QVGA/VGA/WVGA Graphics ControllerCustomer #383498urn:uuid:e0f977ed-1e57-3e03-7f7d-d10a37d1057a2013-07-09T16:00:43-06:00<p>Hello. I have this module for sale. I&rsquo;m in Colombia. I can send it in 20 days with a family that travels to United States. Contact to me in cervantes.sierra@gmail.com</p>Customer #383498 on DEV-10329 - PICASO QVGA/VGA/WVGA Graphics ControllerCustomer #383498urn:uuid:a2746ecd-03ad-c5c0-92d0-29e68c2a00a02013-07-09T15:59:03-06:00<p>Hello. I have this module for sale. I&rsquo;m in Colombia. I can send it in 20 days with a family that travels to United States.</p>ARQuattr on DEV-10329 - PICASO QVGA/VGA/WVGA Graphics ControllerARQuattrurn:uuid:b0d58cf3-bfed-d5b9-b950-e846c68a96312013-06-25T08:13:09-06:00<p>Hi, does anyone have one of these and is willing to sell it? I started a project a while ago based on this board and I need another one. Thanks</p>osval1808 on DEV-10329 - PICASO QVGA/VGA/WVGA Graphics Controllerosval1808urn:uuid:2321b8a6-ab6a-dd82-3d12-b8bd56b36b6d2013-03-04T22:50:46-07:00<p>Hi!
I am new using this
Does anyone have a tutorial for using this board?
Thanks a lot.</p>Aleksandr S. on DEV-10329 - PICASO QVGA/VGA/WVGA Graphics ControllerAleksandr S.urn:uuid:39e599e3-7a65-438d-8d4c-8252c15c60562013-02-21T13:41:34-07:00<p>Hey guys, I&rsquo;m trying to advertise an indiegogo (it&rsquo;s like Kickstarter) project at http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/graphic-card-for-embedded-systems?c=home
you should check their video examples.</p>
<p>Last week I&rsquo;ve been trying to order a LAVA10 from MYLIUM (which looks like a pretty capable VGA/SVGA controller), but they were out of stock and their engineer informed me that he was developing a new controller as a successor and wanted to crowd-source the development costs. He kindly asked to spread the word about it, so here I am.</p>adruniocaveman on DEV-10329 - PICASO QVGA/VGA/WVGA Graphics Controlleradruniocavemanurn:uuid:7016da62-a85e-99c2-dae3-f1f1311109e62012-12-31T07:05:18-07:00<p>According to the datasheet you can use these as standalone development boards too, they have gio pins for inputs and outputs. Sooo. could they be used by themselves without a arduino or other brain??</p>Customer #155514 on DEV-10329 - PICASO QVGA/VGA/WVGA Graphics ControllerCustomer #155514urn:uuid:c75db2aa-1d2b-eaec-9fb3-6d2fc6ad27e42012-11-08T01:21:36-07:00<p>this GPU is VERY slow and VERY badly documented, the manuals having many faults. if you are thinking of using this for rendering even NES-like game graphics, don&rsquo;t consider this at all.</p>
<p>after a week of trial and error, you can actually do <em>some</em> useful stuff with it. playing animated .gif files is one of the coolest, especially knowing you can play sound while this happens for playing video (haven&rsquo;t tested this yet, may lag too much to be useful).</p>
<p>SD functions are quite limited too, you can&rsquo;t put or use files inside folders.</p>
<p>so, I sort-of regret buying this, but I&rsquo;m going to try to make the best thing I can with this. already have a colourful command-prompt thing working!</p>Funda on DEV-10329 - PICASO QVGA/VGA/WVGA Graphics ControllerFundaurn:uuid:f683e992-c947-cdb0-9c13-05560b893d7c2012-07-02T11:16:13-06:00<p>No, this product does not come with the programming cable.</p>Customer #335148 on DEV-10329 - PICASO QVGA/VGA/WVGA Graphics ControllerCustomer #335148urn:uuid:833b5c46-9a47-07b5-f9f5-367aed5ad1722012-07-02T05:38:59-06:00<p>Does this unit come with the 4D programming cable?</p>SteveSpence on DEV-10329 - PICASO QVGA/VGA/WVGA Graphics ControllerSteveSpenceurn:uuid:d5a652bf-d2db-09d4-491f-4480122ce76c2012-05-29T06:17:21-06:00<p>I got the unit working in SGC Mode, but moving screen data serially to the uVGA is pretty slow. Now I&rsquo;m converting my project to GFX (4DGL) mode. It&rsquo;s a whole different ballgame.</p>
<p>http://www.instructables.com/id/Interfacing-a-Digital-Micrometer-to-a-Microcontrol/</p>Customer #277986 on DEV-10329 - PICASO QVGA/VGA/WVGA Graphics ControllerCustomer #277986urn:uuid:eb2910a8-c6fd-6d0c-223b-357d6bda7d122012-03-03T17:41:22-07:00<p>Can this be programmed with an FTDI cable if you make a jumper cable to rearrange the pinout?</p>Customer #54207 on DEV-10329 - PICASO QVGA/VGA/WVGA Graphics ControllerCustomer #54207urn:uuid:75c37352-54f1-2327-834c-0848d0f1d2e42012-02-24T17:30:22-07:00<p>So far (fingers crossed) I&rsquo;ve found this pretty straight forward to use if you RTFM.</p>
<p>Oscar Gonzalez wrote an Arduino library for the nearly the same SGC OLED shield. I&rsquo;ve updated his library for use with this module.</p>
<p>The library is available at:
https://github.com/tklenke/Picaso_SGC</p>SteveSpence on DEV-10329 - PICASO QVGA/VGA/WVGA Graphics ControllerSteveSpenceurn:uuid:5cf3c982-62d9-3e51-5425-e1c8e6f54e262011-12-13T13:22:18-07:00<p>He&rsquo;s using the GFX. There&rsquo;s virtually no known examples of the SGC mode.</p>SteveSpence on DEV-10329 - PICASO QVGA/VGA/WVGA Graphics ControllerSteveSpenceurn:uuid:72fbfe86-c6e3-7a70-c456-0bdf148803ca2011-12-13T13:20:41-07:00<p>Given the great difficulties many purchasers are having with this product, there should be sample sketches showing how it&rsquo;s used. 4D offers little support on this product.</p>Goral on DEV-10329 - PICASO QVGA/VGA/WVGA Graphics ControllerGoralurn:uuid:ba11f018-f308-027b-a4e6-13e12d92a01f2011-11-22T16:41:52-07:00<p>Just found this project, actually I got this product page from instructables and I&rsquo;m going to grab one of these.</p>
<p>Anyway here&rsquo;s the link:
http://www.instructables.com/id/Google-Weather-on-graphical-display-with-Arduino/</p>nibbler on DEV-10329 - PICASO QVGA/VGA/WVGA Graphics Controllernibblerurn:uuid:3a8faab5-aa99-40e3-3a71-7c37bb39d9652011-10-28T08:49:22-06:00<p>Mine is currently a very expensive way to have a coloured screen, because nothing other than the &lsquo;set background colour&rsquo; command seems to work.<br/>
http://pastebin.com/mw3NN4pK<br/>
Has anybody had any more luck interfacing this with an Arduino development board? Google has not been my friend for this endeavour.</p>Customer #226770 on DEV-10329 - PICASO QVGA/VGA/WVGA Graphics ControllerCustomer #226770urn:uuid:1d2f90fb-7348-dee8-f9d3-65245333dec52011-05-20T20:56:15-06:00<p><a href="http://mbed.org/cookbook/uVGAII" rel="nofollow" >http://mbed.org/cookbook/uVGAII</a> has example code for mbed</p>abitkin on DEV-10329 - PICASO QVGA/VGA/WVGA Graphics Controllerabitkinurn:uuid:a54b3417-bcfa-5e2f-7506-d1dced0f8b322011-04-25T12:02:25-06:00<p>FYI, these will rotate to portrait mode, despite the data sheet saying it won&rsquo;t. You just cannot set the personality to be portrait, meaning images/video are rotated incorrectly.</p>RobertC. on DEV-10329 - PICASO QVGA/VGA/WVGA Graphics ControllerRobertC.urn:uuid:2e339cfb-047c-5aee-585f-608226a026472011-03-25T16:09:41-06:00<p>yep, changed. thanks.</p>DaveAK on DEV-10329 - PICASO QVGA/VGA/WVGA Graphics ControllerDaveAKurn:uuid:78763cea-740f-cea1-4c0c-063b1f15f92b2011-03-25T16:00:35-06:00<p>Doesn&rsquo;t look like it supports SVGA. Might want to change that title.</p>Applekid on DEV-10329 - PICASO QVGA/VGA/WVGA Graphics ControllerApplekidurn:uuid:af92ed1a-5c8a-0418-255f-412b55c25cc02011-03-25T09:33:39-06:00<p>Er, RRRGGGBB, since the eye is least sensitive to blue</p>Applekid on DEV-10329 - PICASO QVGA/VGA/WVGA Graphics ControllerApplekidurn:uuid:b0ed8f95-1a82-3572-ef37-824b4c0f5aa62011-03-25T08:41:34-06:00<p>From glancing at the command set, looks like vector drawing is in the form of 16-bit colors while bitmap drawing can be specified in 8-bit or 16-bit. It doesn&rsquo;t specify the 8-bit mask format, but I&rsquo;d assume it&rsquo;s RRGGGGBB.<br/>
I don&rsquo;t have any of 4D&rsquo;s graphics products but this one is calling my name oh so gently.</p>Camalaio_ on DEV-10329 - PICASO QVGA/VGA/WVGA Graphics ControllerCamalaio_urn:uuid:eae477a5-eb0a-4ccd-2029-4ee51d6041262011-03-24T12:15:42-06:00<p>In the description you say 256 (8-bit) colours for drawing, yet the features list says 65K colours (16-bit).<br/>
While reading through the product page, I noticed the serial commands for drawing do support 16-bit colours in the 5:6:5 RGB format. Also, there is a command to switch between 8 and 16 bit colour I think.<br/>
Can someone clarify or confirm these statements?</p>rj44319 on DEV-10329 - PICASO QVGA/VGA/WVGA Graphics Controllerrj44319urn:uuid:8705f818-dc43-cc8b-abcc-74d0811878562011-03-24T10:35:33-06:00<p>Sure it will&hellip; if you tied 8-9&hellip;.thousand of them together&hellip;.lol</p>RobK on DEV-10329 - PICASO QVGA/VGA/WVGA Graphics ControllerRobKurn:uuid:d5637bab-aead-debf-b95d-d5199bcc702c2011-03-24T09:36:32-06:00<p>Will it play Crysis?</p>Foxdie on DEV-10329 - PICASO QVGA/VGA/WVGA Graphics ControllerFoxdieurn:uuid:3bfb8c10-ca7b-7b4c-b5e2-8b487e6d0eda2011-03-24T03:35:25-06:00<p>About time SF got these in, been drooling over them for months :D<br/>
&ldquo;Here&rsquo;s my wallet!"<br/>
You can find a demo on Youtube <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6B16rXZbm0" rel="nofollow" >here</a></p>roycohen2013 on DEV-10329 - PICASO QVGA/VGA/WVGA Graphics Controllerroycohen2013urn:uuid:64d08c36-0ebc-e7fa-8968-0cf200404a292011-03-23T13:57:21-06:00<p>looks like arduinos are gona have alot more control real soon :D</p>